Quantifying bushfire penetration into urban areas in Australia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2004, Pages

  Chen, Keping ^a   McAneney, John ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; FIRE HAZARDS; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; PROBABILITY; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCES; GEOPHYSICS;

BUSHFIRE; HOME DESTRUCTION; HUMAN INTERVENTION; URBAN AREAS;

FIRE PROTECTION; RISK PERCEPTION;

BUSHLAND; URBAN AREA; WILDFIRE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

ATTACK MODEL; DECREASING FUNCTIONS; FIRE REGIMES; FOREST EDGE; HUMAN INTERVENTION; MAXIMUM DISTANCE; NEIGHBOURHOOD; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

EID: 6044256257     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020244     Document Type: Article

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